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The British tabloid newspaper The Sun has attacked a British taxpayer-funded website aimed at attracting homosexual visitors to the UK, which trumpets the country as the “United Queendom”.
The website is published by VisitBritain — which replaced the British Tourist Authority — and which gets a £35 million Government grant every year.
The "Gay Britain" web page says: "Welcome to the United Queendom of Great Britain. With our proud gay history, cutting edge culture and fashion, flamboyant cities and pulsating nightlife, isn't it time you came out...to Britain!"
There are links to Gay Events and gay pages for four British cities.
The paper quotes Conservative MP James Gray as saying: “The notion that we are promoting Britain as a pick-up joint is very distasteful. I am most perturbed if taxpayers’ money is being used to encourage that.”
It also quotes Shadow Culture Secretary John Whittingdale who said: “It seems to be a very strange sense of priorities to be devoting large sums of money to a scheme like this.”
Defending the website, a spokesman for the Department of Culture said: “VisitBritain has identified a commercial opportunity in the key market of the pink pound.”
You can view the site at: http://www.visitbritain.com/VB3-en-US/experiences/gay/index.aspx
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